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Community leaders working against disparities in the criminal justice system are greeting the settlement agreement in the ACLU's stop-and-frisk lawsuit against the city with hope. The $3.4 million settlement was made official Monday when U.S. District Judge J.P. Stadtmueller approved it.

A Milwaukee officer who "was loved by everyone" died during an exchange of gunfire in a house where police were searching for a man suspected of dealing drugs and domestic violence, the Milwaukee police chief said on Thursday.

Republican Gov. Scott Walker joined the growing bipartisan call Wednesday for Democratic candidate Matt Flynn to drop out of the race for governor because of his past legal work defending the Milwaukee Archdiocese against priest abuse lawsuits.

The Office of Lawyer Regulation is challenging a referee’s recommendation that a lawyer out of La Crosse not be suspended for mishandling nearly $30,000 placed in a trust account and then using her own money to try to cover her tracks.

A lawyer for former Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner argued Tuesday that his client's attempted rape conviction should be overturned. Turner never intended to rape an unconscious woman, he said.

Along with providing additional physical security, the state's second round of school-safety grants, totaling $45 million, will be used to set up school-safety intervention teams and to try to improve students' mental health, Attorney General Brad Schimel announced on Tuesday.

The family of an Australian woman who was killed by a Minneapolis police officer last year after she called 911 to report a possible assault filed a lawsuit Monday alleging the officer conspired with his partner to hide what really happened.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in October over whether Alabama can execute an inmate diagnosed with stroke-related dementia who lawyers contend can no longer remember killing a police officer in 1985.